Adopt an Auklet

How cool are Cassin's and why do they need your help?

The Cassin’s auklet is a seabird that can dive to depths of over 50 meters to capture its main food source: krill, a shrimp-like animal that sustain the entire marine food web. Because Cassin's auklets eat krill, they serve as excellent indicators of the overall health of the marine ecosystem. Once numbering over 100,000 on the Farallones, their current population is less than one quarter of their historic abundance, and they remain vulnerable to shifts in the marine ecosystem expected to result from climate change.

Point Blue’s campaign is dedicated to the protection and monitoring of Cassin’s auklets and the restoration of its habitat on the Farallon Islands. Your donation will support our campaign to protect the Farallon Island colony, increase and improve artificial nesting habitat, monitor birds at their nest throughout the breeding season and learn from Cassin’s about the health of our local marine ecosystem.

All donations go directly towards helping to monitor and restore the Farallon Islands, for generations to come.

By adopting an auklet you are supporting and joining a legacy of dedicated and innovative scientific research and monitoring by Point Blue biologists that spans back to 1968. Your support will help us continue our scientific stewardship of this unique and important place on earth for many more decades.